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In a Year of Bad Trips, MetroJet 2762
Gets the Prize: Most-Delayed Flight

By

Scott McCartney Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Dec. 23, 1999 12:01 a.m. ET

HARTSFIELD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT -- Four weary travelers stand in line at Gate D29, just 20 minutes before the scheduled departure of US Airways ' MetroJet Flight 2762, but no one is there to check them in. The evening flight is running late. Again.

Flight 2762 is a seemingly simple one-bag-of-peanuts jaunt from Atlanta to Washington's Dulles Airport. But little has been simple about air travel lately -- or about Flight 2762. In a...